BEREC Strategy 2015-2017

During its 18th meeting (27-28 February 2014, Stockholm) the Board of Regulators decided to start work on a new draft BEREC Strategy, which should cover the period 2015-2017 and should replace the BEREC Medium Term Strategy Outlook. After the 18th plenary meeting BEREC established a small Ad Hoc Group under the leadership of the BEREC Vice-Chair (BIPT), which was tasked to develop a questionnaire on the challenges to be faced by the regulators in the coming three years.

During the public consultation BEREC received 11 contributions, which were examined and reflected in the revised Strategy, where appropriate. All individual contributions have been published on the BEREC website subject to any confidentially requirements introduced by the contributors. An overview of the contributions received and explanation how they were reflected in the revised Strategy is presented in the Report on the outcome of the public consultation.

The BEREC Strategy outlines the 3 strategic pillars for BEREC’s activities in the period 2015-2017, as follows:

1. Promoting competition and investment;

2. Promoting the Internal market;

3. Empowering and protecting end-users;

The document emphasised the importance of the quality of BEREC output and the operational efficiency, which could contribute directly to achieving BEREC’s strategic vision. BEREC will reflect its vision in its work programmes, and seek to improve its work planning in order to optimise the use of its resources.

The achievement of this objective will be developed at three levels: by working to improve the quality and consistency of individual NRA decisions through guidelines and best practices, by engaging and cooperating effectively in particular with the Commission and other stakeholders and by improving working methods and the quality of the output.